EVENTS - FALL 2008

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6

MAJORS AND MINORS FAIR

TROUSDALE PARKWAY - WATCH FOR OUR TABLE!

Wednesday, October 15:

USC Center for Excellence in Research Workshop

Feminism in the 21st-Century American Academy

Is feminism over? Do we need Women’s and Gender Studies programs?  This lunchtime roundtable discussion addresses key questions for the future of feminism:  Are there any feminists left on campus?  Are we all feminists?  Do feminists still have political responsibility for shaping the 21st-century university?

Facilitator:  Lisa Bitel, Professor of History, CER Fellow

Credit Union Building, Rm. 32, 12.00-1.30 pm

TO RSVP AND FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.usc.edu/cer

Monday, October 20:

LUNCH through the LENS of GENDER

Students and faculty gather to lunch and listen as scholars from around the academic disciplines train the lens of gender on their scholarship, their fields of expertise and disciplines, academia more generally, politics, society, culture, the economy, religion and anything else they darned well feel like discussing, thank you very much.

featuring:

Susan Estrich, Robert Kingsley Professor Law and Political Science

Judy Muller, formerly of NPR and ABC, Associate Professor Journalism

Karen Tongson, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies and Ethnicity

Doheny Library, Intellectual Commons

12.00-1.30 p.m.

To reserve a lunch or get more information, please contact: gender@usc.edu

COMING IN Spring 2009:

LUNCH through the LENS of GENDER: What's Gender Got to Do with Engineering?

Tuesday, October 21

The Guerilla Girls

12.30 p.m. - Ground Zero

Coming in 2009:

BARBIE'S BIRTHDAY BUSINESS

Fifty years of feminist responses to America's Favorite Doll

For more events, PLEASE CHECK THE USC Calendar